Short answer (Oct 8, 2026): on Nodus, an H100 SXM 80 GB is $2.60/hr, H200 SXM $3.59/hr, B200 $5.50/hr and B300 $6.94/hr on demand. Consumer and prosumer cards go much lower: an RTX 4090 is $0.29/hr and an RTX 3090 is $0.18/hr. Modal's listed rates for the same data center GPUs run from 2% higher (B300) to about 2.5x higher (L40S) depending on the card.
Prices below are per GPU-hour, USD, taken from the public Nodus pricing page on October 8, 2026, which lists Modal's published rate beside each one.
Data center GPUs
| GPU | VRAM | Nodus | Modal |
|---|---|---|---|
| B300 | 288 GB | $6.943 | $7.099 |
| B200 | 180 GB | $5.500 | $6.250 |
| H200 SXM | 141 GB | $3.593 | $4.540 |
| H100 SXM | 80 GB | $2.600 | $3.949 |
| A100 | 80 GB | $1.090 | $2.498 |
| A100 | 40 GB | $0.904 | $2.099 |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 96 GB | $1.350 | $3.031 |
| L40S | 48 GB | $0.793 | $1.951 |
| L4 | 24 GB | $0.430 | $0.799 |
Budget and prosumer GPUs
| GPU | VRAM | Nodus |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090 | 32 GB | $0.480 |
| RTX 4090 | 24 GB | $0.290 |
| RTX 3090 | 24 GB | $0.180 |
| RTX 6000 Ada | 48 GB | $0.743 |
| RTX A6000 | 48 GB | $0.333 |
| RTX A4000 | 16 GB | $0.173 |
Which one should you rent?
- Fine-tuning a 7B to 14B model with LoRA: a 48 GB card (L40S, A6000) or a 24 GB card with QLoRA. A100 80 GB if you want full fine-tunes of small models.
- Full fine-tunes and pretraining at scale: H100 or H200. H200's 141 GB helps with long context and larger batch sizes.
- Serving frontier-size open models: B200 or B300. B300's 288 GB per GPU means fewer GPUs per replica, which often lowers cost per token even though the hourly rate is higher.
- Experiments, evals and small jobs: RTX 4090 / 5090 at under $0.50/hr are hard to beat.
What the hourly rate does not tell you
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Boot and teardown. Some platforms bill from machine creation to deletion. On Nodus the bill is split into
Boot,RunningandTeardownsegments so you can see it. - Price changes mid-run. Nodus freezes the rate when the machine is chosen for the whole run.
- Interruptions. Spot capacity is cheaper, but only if your job checkpoints. Otherwise one preemption can wipe out the savings. See our preemption guide.
- Reserved terms. For multi-month commitments on B200/B300, reserved pricing is quoted separately and depends on term length, location and interconnect. Nodus handles these through Reserved Compute.
FAQ
What is the cheapest H100 per hour in October 2026? On Nodus, $2.60/hr for an H100 SXM 80 GB, on demand.
How much does a B300 cost per hour? $6.94/hr on demand on Nodus as of Oct 8, 2026. Reserved terms are quoted per request.
Is there a free tier? New Nodus accounts get a $30 starter grant valid for 30 days.
We refresh this table monthly. Live prices: nodus-compute.ai/pricing
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